Classroom training
CPAP — the Flow-Safe II
A classroom training on prehospital and ED CPAP with the Mercury Medical Flow-Safe II. This is instructor material for a room full of students. It needs no account: open it on whatever machine is in the classroom.
Open the kit
- Slides (.pptx)55 slides. Speaker notes on the teaching slides. Open it in presenter view.
- Course packet (PDF)40 pages. The full text behind every slide, the skills checkoff, the attendance roster and the service settings page. Hand it out or teach from it.
- Quick card (PDF)Two sides, 5.5 x 8.5. Print, laminate, and keep it with the masks.
What it covers
- What CPAP does, and what it does not
- Which patients get it, and what to treat first in the ones who don't
- The COPD problem
- Who may do this — Montana scope
- The device, and its 13 cm H2O ceiling
- Putting it on
- When it is not working, and when it comes off
- Oxygen: how long the portable lasts, and oxygen in COPD
- The nebulizer, the three neb drugs, and EtCO2
- Short-handed: what comes first
- Pediatric patients
- What the evidence shows
Have the device in your hands. Several slides are meant to be shown on a real Flow-Safe II: set the flow, watch the gauge. The speaker notes say where.
Looking for solo practice instead? The copy-paste practice scenarios are a different thing entirely — turn-by-turn cases one learner runs alone on their own AI, at every level from EMR to flight nurse.